LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey

Genre: 3D Action-Platformer

Players: 1, StreetPass Supported

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Review:

LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey is a 3D Action-Platformer released in 2013 on PlayStation Vita, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS. This game combines Traveller’s Tales’ usual LEGO game formula with LEGO’s own Legends of Chima line of toys which feature anthopomorphic animal warriors in a fantasy setting.

After the highly-creative LEGO City Undercover, and the ambitious but flawed LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins, LEGO went with something safe and simple with their next title, with little to set this game apart from other entries in the franchise save for their own license and characters.

Unfortunately, I personally find this game’s characters to be highly annoying, poorly-voiced stereotypes seemingly straight out of a low-caliber Saturday morning kids’ cartoon. This is joined by highly unimpressive 3D visuals with blurry textures, repetitive environments, and a soundtrack that’s… okay, the cinematic soundtrack here is actually pretty good, but just about everything else is pretty terrible here.

As for the gameplay… I really don’t know what else to say here. This is much the same sort of 3D Action-Platformer gameplay we’ve seen in the series since the beginning. I suppose I can say that there seems like a greater focus on the Platforming this time, and the combat seems especially tedious thanks to damage sponge enemies, but otherwise this game plays pretty predictably. Oh, and of course there’s no multiplayer.

Without characters I like, a story that entertains me, or a world that captures my imagination, LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey only has its gameplay to fall back on, and that gameplay is as tedious and worn out here as it ever was. Unless you are specifically a fan of the Legends of Chima line of LEGO products, I don’t see any reason for you to bother with this game.

tl;dr – LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval’s Journey is a family-friendly 3D Action-Platformer featuring LEGO’s own Legends of Chima franchise. Unfortunately, I found the characters and the story they feature in to be terrible, and the gameplay here is perhaps one of the Traveller’s Tales games’ least creative efforts. Unless you are a huge fan of this franchise, this is a game to skip.

Grade: C-

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